The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-04-29
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

, The Emperor of Japan has just com
pleted tour of the chief cities of hi
| kingdom.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett will
spend the summer at her seashore home
in Lynn, Mass.
Senator Mitchell's wife and daughter
sail for Europe this week, to spend the
summer abroad.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington
philanthropist, is said to pay taxes on
%,SOO,OO worth of property.
For an old man with voice that
needs to be taken care of, Mr.. Gladstone
poes a great deal of talking.
Ex-President White last week began a
course of lectures at Cornell University
on "Modern German History"
| DR.. Holmes, Professor Lowell, Mr..
Howells, and Mr.. Aldrich all deny any
knowledge of the Boston Authors Club.
The Kings County New York; Repub-
lican General Committee has approprla-
ted $3.50 toward the Beecher monument
fund.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has
granted the medal for art and science to
Frou Pauline Lucca, the distinguished
cantatrice.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
will practice what he breaches, on Arbor
Day, and pant elm trees about the Exc
cutive Mansion.
| Colored porters on the Main boudoir
cars are not allowed to sell liqnor in
Southern districts in which the sale is
not legal.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg mil
lionaire iron manufacturer, will soon
marry Miss Whitfield, of New York,
says Pittsburg paper.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
decides that married woman has not
the right to mortgage her separate estate
for debt not contracted for its benefit.
Lieutenant HEM, who commanded
Galatea in the yacht race last summer,
predicts that the Mayfower will beat
the new Scotch yacht Thistle this sea-
son.
Tom Ochiltree says he never contra
diets newspaper statements, but he some
times wants to break reporters heads
for putting villainOus grammar into his
mouth.
The Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, and
the Hon. Hamilton Fish, have been in
vited to attend the unwilling of the CAL
houn monument at Charleston, S. c.,
April 26.
1t is said that in July Schaefer, Slosson,
and Vignaux will hold private billiard
tournament at Nine. PATHS castle at
Craig-y nos, and that the Prince of Wales
will be present.
Each of twelve Yale Professors pays
tax on property valued over $4,000.
The list is headed by Simon E. Baldwin
with $74,97O, and closed by Geo. P.
Fisher with $2O,5OO.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, of Iowa, a sue
cessful temperance leader, and legal
counsel of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, is in failing health,
caused by overwork.
Prof. Charles Babcock, of Cornell Uni
versity, will sail for England Saturday
to read paper on agricultural Schools"
before the Royal Institute of British
Architects next month.
The Hon. George Bancroft, eighty six
years old and in vigorous health, says
that people are injured a great deal
more by eating too much than by taking
an extra glass of wine at dinner.
George w. Childs has an income of
81 900 day, and a friend who once saw
his account book says it showed, that in
one month of thirty days, the philan-
thropist gave away $4,000 for charity.
A letter from Rudolph Schnaubelt, al
legged thrower of the Haymarket bomb
in Chicago, is printed in a paper pub
lished by an Austrian anarchist in Lon
don. The letter is dated Christiana,
Norway. Schnaubelt denies that he
threw the bomb.
William r. McCabe, speaker of the
Delaware. house of representatives, is
next to the youngest member of that
body. He entered the legislature at the
| age of 26. He is handsome young
man, good parliamentarlan, and an
eloquent speaker.
In three months the editor of the New
York World has received letters from
6l3 women in New York City, living
apart from their husbands, and DESTROYS
of marrying again. Mr.. Pulitzer's social
success in the metropolis is assured, but
he'd better look out for the ex-husbands.
Sir George Stephen, President of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, and Sir DON
aid Smith, one of the directors, have
sent letter to the Mavor of Montreal
offering to contribute 81 ,OOO, 600 for the
erection of a hospital for the poor of that
city, to be on the slope of Mount Royal
In a lecture at Dallas, Tex, Hon. j..
r. G. Pitkin, of New Orleans, paid a
compliment to the press by saying a
newspaper, the impersonal mouthpiece
of public wisdom, sifted to the bottom
current events and laid bare the truth,
sometimes pleasant, but more frequent
ly CALLING.
At a negro wedding in Griffin, Ga, a
short time ago, when the words Glove,
honor and obey" were come to, the
groom interrupted the preacher and
said: "Read that again, sab; read it
wunce no.! SOS de lady kin ketch de full
solemnity of de meanin.' I'se been
married befo'."
| Lord Tennyson's time to go into the
bakery business has surely come. Ac-
cording to the late Mrs. Annie Gilchrist,
Mr.. Tennyson has said that when he
ceases to sell as poet he shall start the
Tennyson biscuit, an invention of Mrs.
Tennyson's that he considers surprising
ly excellent"
The Misses Bayard are mitigating the
depth of their first years mourning for
their double bereavement. Miss Bay
ards visiting card is still bordered with
black, but less deeply. She was present
in broad-brimmed black straw hat and
becoming suit to match as one of the
sponsors for Little Dorothy" on Easter
Monday.
Georgia boasts of three stlngy men.